The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-10-05

that fan on your dying vision with the
sunlight Of glorious morn. For your
sakesi No; / win change that. Paul
viii not care, and Christ viii not care if
change it, for / must get into the bless
edness of the text myself, and SO / say;
ssFor our sakesl' For we all have our
temptations, and bereavements, and con-
ficts For our sakesi We who deserve
for our sins TO be expatriated into world
as much poorer than this than this earth
was poorer than heaven. For our sakes!
But what fruitful coming down TO
take US glorioUsly up. When Artaxerxes
was hunting, Tirebazus, who was attend
ing him, showed the king rent in his
garment. The king said: How shall |
mend it2'' by giving it to me, said
Tirebazus. Then the king gave him the
robe, but commanded him never to wear
it, as it would be inappropriate. See the
startling and comforting fact, while our
Prince throws off the habit he not only
allows US to wear it but commands us TO
wear it, and it will become US well, and
for the poverties Of our spiritual state we
may put on the splendOrs of heavenly re-
galement. For our sakes! o, the per-
sonality of this religion! Not an abstrac-
ton, not an arch under which we walk
to behold elaborate masonry, not an ice
castle like that which Empress Elizabeth,
of Russia, over hundred years ago or
dered constructed, winter with its trowel
of crystal cementing the huge blocks that
had been quarried from the frozen rivers
of the north. but a Fathers house with
wide hearth cracking hearty welcome.
L
and light, and cheer, something we can
take into our hearts, and homes, and
business, recreations, and joys and sor-
rows. Not an unmanageable gift like the
galley presented to Ptolemy, which re-
quired four thousand men to row, and
its draught of water was so great that it
could not come near the shore, but some
thing you can run up any stream of an
noyance, however shallow. Enrichment
now, enrichment foreveri
Right about face! for you are going IN
the wrong direction. While you are in
favorable mood for it enter into life.
Here and Just now decide everything that
makes for peace and heaven. Agassiz
| says that he has stood at one place in the
Alps where he could throw a chip into
the water in one direction and it would
roll on into the German ocean, or he
| could throw chip into the water in an
other direction and it would reach the
Black sea by the Danube, or he could
| throw a chip in another direction and it
would enter the Mediterranean by the
Rhone. How far apart the Mediterra-
mean and the Black sea and the German
ocean! Standing today on this Alps of
Gospel privilege you can project your
| soul into right currents, and it will roll
on into the ocean of life, or project it in
the wrong direction and it will roll into
the sea of death. But how far apart the
two distances! May God help us to APP
preciate more and more the momentous
meaning of our text! The seven wise
men of Greece were chiefly known each
for one apophthegn; Scion for the saying,
"Know myself Fernandez for the say
ing, Nothing is impossible to industry"
Chic for the saying, Consider the end;"
Thales for the saying, ''Suretyship is the
precursor of ruin" and Paul, distin-
| guished for thousand utterances, might
wen afford to be memorable for the say
ing, ''You know the grace of our Lord
| Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich,
| yet for your sakes became poor, that ye
through his poverty might be rich. .